Autorefresh Support Plugin

Hi, I made a thing.

Download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/fj7sacpejqm6605/magic.zip?dl=0

Spoiler

This plugin is designed for developers only.
This plugin basically detours some functions that are defined in CAX externals and makes them autorefresh-friendly. It makes CW sort-of autorefreshable.
No decrypted code was released, you may relax, Conna.

Installation:
Drop the plugin in ../gamemodes/clockwork/plugins NOT schema plugins.
You may want to restart your server once after the initial setup of the plugin.

Bugs (that only occur AFTER Auto-Reload):
Character creation breaks after refresh
New clients don't seem to be able to initialize. Doesn't affect already connected ones.

 

niiiiiicccee

 

this is amazing

 

Glad you like it. It took me 15 minutes to write, test and ship this plugin.

But I had sort of a head start because I knew what to do.

 

This plugin seems to break a convar used by the third person plugin for me... not really sure why. It just happens when I use it.

Code:

gamemodes/clockwork/plugins/thirdperson/plugin/cl_hooks.lua:25: attempt to index global 'CW_CONVAR_CHASECAM_SMOOTH' (a nil value)

Unfortunate.

EDIT: I believe it breaks all convars.

PHP:

-- Called when the client initializes.
function cwThirdPerson:Initialize()
    CW_CONVAR_THIRDPERSON = Clockwork.kernel:CreateClientConVar("cwThirdPerson", 0, false, true);
    CW_CONVAR_CHASECAM_BOB = Clockwork.kernel:CreateClientConVar("cwChaseCamBob", 1, true, false);
    CW_CONVAR_CHASECAM_BOBSCALE = Clockwork.kernel:CreateClientConVar("cwChaseCamBobScale", 0.5, true, false);
    CW_CONVAR_CHASECAM_BACK = Clockwork.kernel:CreateClientConVar("cwChaseCamBack", 75, true, false);
    CW_CONVAR_CHASECAM_RIGHT = Clockwork.kernel:CreateClientConVar("cwChaseCamRight", 20, true, false);
    CW_CONVAR_CHASECAM_UP = Clockwork.kernel:CreateClientConVar("cwChaseCamUp", 5, true, false);
    CW_CONVAR_CHASECAM_SMOOTH = Clockwork.kernel:CreateClientConVar("cwChaseCamSmooth", 1, true, false);
    CW_CONVAR_CHASECAM_SMOOTHSCALE = Clockwork.kernel:CreateClientConVar("cwChaseCamSmoothScale", 0.2, true, false);
end;

cwThirdPerson is the only one that exists.

EDIT2: Yeah, removing your plugin fixed the problem. If you need any more info just ask me.

 

Well thats unfortunate.
It didn't seem to break anything on my machine though. I ran 0.96.2 complete vanilla.
I'll investigate.

 

I was also testing it on 0.96.2

 

Oh btw does this only occur after refresh or just like that?

 

Both before and after I restarted after installing the plugin.

 

I just tested it on my local machine and everything worked just fine. Must be something on your end.


I've added you on steam, if you're willing - please add me so that I can help you sort this problem.

 

I just updated the file on dropbox to fix some errors that occured with MySQL after refreshing.
There is a bug due to CloudNet system where all of SharedVars will reset after refresh and the entire system will break. New clients will be stuck at loading screen and some variables will be reset for old clients. While I could try and detour cloudnet system, I won't, because quite honestly I don't have time or motivation to mess around with it. So you just have to work without reconnecting, and if you really need to reconnect it's better to just restart the server.

 

Could someone explain auto-refresh to me like I'm a five year old? It sounds interesting.

 

If you don't know what it is, this plugin isn't for you. It's to assist developers.

 

While Trudeau made a very good point that if you don't know what autorefresh is then you shouldn't be using this plugin, I will explain it anyway.
Autorefresh is basically Gmod's thing. It automatically reloads your script whenever you make changes so that you can develop and see what you made live without needing to restart your server or reconnecting.
This plugin fixes it for Clockwork, because CloudAuthX loads some code over the air that is not written with Autorefresh in mind.

 

Makes sense, also I have just only started developing with CW so maybe once I actually start making scripts this would be helpful!

 

Looks like plugins re-add their settings every refresh. Not too big of a deal.

 

Self explanatory?

 

These are autorefresh bugs. Sadly I can't do anything about them without modifying the framework itself.

 

I just released an update (main file download has been updated).
What's new:
- Fixed SharedVars resetting on refresh
- Prevented CAX Externals from being reloaded on refresh (seriously, they take ridiculous time to reload sometimes).
- Removed Herobrine

Bugs:
- New client are -still- unable to initialize after a refresh
- Character creation is broken after a refresh

 

Main download has been updated, because silly me forgot to remove an extra file that was left in after some failed experiments with netvars.